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You're on a golden ticket, but I want to know how does a career journey in medicine complete you? You have a number of different opportunities, but ultimately what school-based opportunities are you seeking to continue your story with your activities?

Thoughts:

Most of your background and experiences seem to center in New England. Since you attended a CC in the New England area, most other schools outside that region aren't going to know how really rigorous that school is. In all likelihood, I'd strike most schools west of the Mississippi.

Brown is known for picking HYPSM/Ivy undergrads, so you probably would be fine with them, especially as a native New Englander. Again, mission fit?

You need to spell out what you think are T20's.

Yield protection is going to be your issue.

Suggestion:
I don't see how you connect with GW and Georgetown, Colorado, Ohio (OhioU???), Cincinnati, St. Louis, NYMC, Tulane, Illinois, Virginia, or Emory.
 
Mr.Smile12 said:
You're on a golden ticket, but I want to know how does a career journey in medicine complete you? You have a number of different opportunities, but ultimately what school-based opportunities are you seeking to continue your story with your activities?

Thoughts:

Most of your background and experiences seem to center in New England. Since you attended a CC in the New England area, most other schools outside that region aren't going to know how really rigorous that school is. In all likelihood, I'd strike most schools west of the Mississippi.

Brown is known for picking HYPSM/Ivy undergrads, so you probably would be fine with them, especially as a native New Englander. Again, mission fit?

You need to spell out what you think are T20's.

Yield protection is going to be your issue.

Suggestion:
I don't see how you connect with GW and Georgetown, Colorado, Ohio (OhioU???), Cincinnati, St. Louis, NYMC, Tulane, Illinois, Virginia, or Emory.
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Thanks for your reply! To answer your first question, I am going into medicine with an open-mind about how I want to practice but my experiences to date have highlighted several things that are important to me: longitudinal patient relationships; an emphasis on comprehensive care/learning to treat the whole patient; and patient advocacy and efforts to address the systemic gaps in healthcare delivery.

With regards to CC rigor, I was under the impression that this shouldn't matter much because I focused on my gen eds there and maintained a high GPA at my four-year, including in almost all of the science prereqs (physics, ochem, biochem, etc. all taken at 4-year).

For T20s, I was referring to the USNews 1-20 list for simplicity. For most of the schools you highlighted, I added them to my list because they were in locations that I like (I would really like to be in a city for med school) and/or may give me some love for high stats (UVA, USF, etc.). I am certainly worried about yield protection but wasn't sure exactly what my cutoff there should be and I didn't want to make the mistake of applying exclusively to top schools.

Also I meant Ohio State, not UOhio oops!
 
Some of the schools on your list may "yield protect" with your stats. U Illinois has high non resident tuition. I suggest these schools from your list:
Most T20 (not UWash or UCSD)
Kaiser
Case Western
Brown (ik low yield, but want to shoot my shot)
Emory
Albert Einstein
BU
Tufts
Hofstra
UVA
Rochester
Georgetown
USF
UCincy
Ohio State
SLU
UMass
UConn
 
Doja Stan said:
With regards to CC rigor, I was under the impression that this shouldn't matter much because I focused on my gen eds there and maintained a high GPA at my four-year, including in almost all of the science prereqs (physics, ochem, biochem, etc. all taken at 4-year).
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You are correct. It is a question of familiarity and some geographic preferences that could exist. For example, the UC schools like CC students but they also have strong relationships with the system in their state. It is nothing that you did. (My impressions. You should network and check.)

You also want to narrow your list, so that's what I did.
 
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Faha said:
Some of the schools on your list may "yield protect" with your stats. U Illinois has high non resident tuition. I suggest these schools from your list:
Most T20 (not UWash or UCSD)
Kaiser
Case Western
Brown (ik low yield, but want to shoot my shot)
Emory
Albert Einstein
BU
Tufts
Hofstra
UVA
Rochester
Georgetown
USF
UCincy
Ohio State
SLU
UMass
UConn
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Thanks for your reply! If I decided I wanted to cut it to 30, what would be the next five you'd drop from the list?
 
Mr.Smile12 said:
Since you attended a CC in the New England area, most other schools outside that region aren't going to know how really rigorous that school is. In all likelihood, I'd strike most schools west of the Mississippi.
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I mean, he went to Harvard, or somewhere like it, and earned a near-perfect GPA there for two years. I'd think that this would absolutely kill any doubts about rigor dead.
 
LeaveNoTrace said:
I mean, he went to Harvard, or somewhere like it, and earned a near-perfect GPA there for two years. I'd think that this would absolutely kill any doubts about rigor dead.
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I agree. I was replying to concerns about CC rigor and requests to cut down the list. Finding people with a similar path is more unlikely outside the geography of the CC location. Anything to cut the list down to 30 or fewer.
 
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